Senior Software Engineer --- Web Application UI
Location: US, TX, Austin
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Mid-Senior level
Required education: Unspecified
Industry: Computer Software
Function: Engineering

Company profile:
Our MissionWe are revolutionizing how the world's data is stored, computed, and visualized. We provide domain experts with flexible tools that allow them to explore their data and maximize the impact of their insights. We help empower work-groups and businesses by recognizing that data analysis is a collaborative, exploratory activity.Our VisionWe provide open technologies for Data Integration on a massive scale, based on our vision of a structured, universal "data web". In the same way that URL, HTML, and HTTP form the basis of the World Wide Web for documents, our technologies are becomming the fabric for structured and numerical data and are spearheading innovations in data management, analytics, and distributed computation.Our Areas of FocusOur company provides software tools, training, and integration/consulting services to corporate, government, and educational clients worldwide. Areas of expertise include finance, statistical inference, geophysics, business and marketing analytics, and the growing category of data science.Our BackgroundHeadquartered in Austin, Texas with offices in New York City, Castelló, Spain and Vancouver, British Columbia, our lead developers hold advanced degrees in a variety of fields and have decades of combined development experience solving complex, real-world problems. We have focused on large-scale distributed computing, array-oriented programming frameworks, scientific computing and algorithm development, and graphics and interactive data visualization. Learn more about our development team.Our Commitment to Open SourceOur developers are key figures behind NumPy, SciPy, PyTables, SymPy, and Chaco. We are also driving the development around forward-facing open-source projects such as Conda, Numba, Bokeh, Blaze, and the growing PyData ecosystem. We seek to employ as many open-source developers as we can while still providing valuable services and technology products to the market. Read more about our views on Open Source

Job description:
We are looking for a highly experienced web UI developer with a deep knowledge of JavaScript, HTML, CSS and other relevant web development technologies. This position will be expected to lead and perform much of the UI development on our flagship SaaS cloud based product, Wakari. Wakari is a SPA utilizing the latest HTML5 and JavaScript technologies. Wakari is designed and intended for modern browsers only, no pre-IE10 support required.QualificationsDeep understanding of JavaScript, HTML, CSS and other modern web UI technologies.At least the last 4 years doing full-time web UI development and designPortfolio with relevant code samples - be prepared to debriefWrite JavaScript, both in its raw form and with common JS librariesCapable of translating high fidelity mockups and complex requirements into quality JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3 for SaaS web applicationsPast experience in enterprise software UI and/or cloud SaaS UIComfortable with a highly iterative lean/agile methodology that includes providing time estimates and managing feedback loopsDriven to rigorously test and refine code to get the design rightUnderstands how the web works and can make sensible front-end architectural decisions from that knowledgeCollaboration skills that can deftly articulate your decisionsMotivated self-starter with the ability to work independentlyDemonstrated leadership and mentoring abilitiesPreferred SkillsPast experience in enterprise software, cloud SaaS UI and or HPCExposure to recent frameworks like #URL_b7bad8ac916069eadd573f035544c52dc3519a0ba054fb7ab1ff9ba3e1525399#, Bootstrap, coffee script, hem, etcFluent with git and #URL_44c3cbfa0dbb6af3828ff895c52d2efd074ac844b3dae50ed49125ac535568fe#. What is a Pull Request?Deep curiosity for user experience and crafting products that delightExceptional execution, obsess over the details, every pixel countsExperience with a geographically distributed development teamFamiliarity with The Lean Startup methodology and MVPBroad personal interests beyond software

Requirements:
Deep understanding of JavaScript, HTML, CSS and other modern web UI technologies.At least the last 4 years doing full-time web UI development and designPortfolio with relevant code samples - be prepared to debriefWrite JavaScript, both in its raw form and with common JS librariesCapable of translating high fidelity mockups and complex requirements into quality JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3 for SaaS web applicationsPast experience in enterprise software UI and/or cloud SaaS UIComfortable with a highly iterative lean/agile methodology that includes providing time estimates and managing feedback loopsDriven to rigorously test and refine code to get the design rightUnderstands how the web works and can make sensible front-end architectural decisions from that knowledgeCollaboration skills that can deftly articulate your decisionsMotivated self-starter with the ability to work independentlyDemonstrated leadership and mentoring abilitiesPast experience in enterprise software, cloud SaaS UI and or HPCExposure to recent frameworks like #URL_b7bad8ac916069eadd573f035544c52dc3519a0ba054fb7ab1ff9ba3e1525399#, Bootstrap, coffee script, hem, etcFluent with git and #URL_44c3cbfa0dbb6af3828ff895c52d2efd074ac844b3dae50ed49125ac535568fe#. What is a Pull Request?Deep curiosity for user experience and crafting products that delightExceptional execution, obsess over the details, every pixel countsExperience with a geographically distributed development teamFamiliarity with The Lean Startup methodology and MVPBroad personal interests beyond software

Benefits:
Continuum Analytics is an emerging startup that provides excellent benefits including full dental and medical benefits.   You get to work on interesting and impactful projects at Continuum that will improve your marketability and give you exposure to clients, ideas, and opportunities that will enhance your career.